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“Robust evidence demonstrates that HEPA filter air purifiers reduce indoor PM2.5 concentrations and improve health outcomes, and many government agencies and public health authorities recommend the use of indoor HEPA filters to reduce wildfire smoke exposure and its negative health effects.”

“The participants who consumed the most fiber were 37 percent less likely to die from all causes of premature death than those who consumed the least, even when considering age, sex, body mass index, smoking, exercise, hypertension, diabetes, and abnormal blood lipids.”

“The double-blind study randomly assigned 41 men with prostate cancer awaiting surgery to remove the prostate to receive either a daily placebo or a broccoli-derived supplement containing 240 mg of glucoraphanin plus myrosinase for four weeks.”

“This is round two of a special Q&A dedicated to COVID-19. The questions in this episode represent what is actually just a small fraction of the many interesting questions submitted from subscribers to my newsletter regarding the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.”

“The animals were then randomly allocated to receive either a single dose of psilocybin or a control saline injection, after which the researchers quantified their spine densities on five more occasions (days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 34), blinded to whether the mice had received the active compound or saline.”

“In late 2020, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for REGEN-COV as a post-exposure treatment for patients meeting specific criteria based on robust data from phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials.”

“The trial was also too short to assess the effects on long-term complications associated with MASLD. Still, the findings make essential phospholipids an interesting treatment candidate for MASLD patients while keeping lifestyle care and metabolic risk management central.”

“Intermittent fasting drives the "cortisol paradox" Copious other cellular responses occur during intermittent fasting in animals, including an interesting phenomenon involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (commonly referred to as the HPA axis) – the body's central stress response system – and cortisol…”

“paper Strengthening Individual Memories by Reactivating Them During Sleep A common thread between aging-associated loss of slow-wave sleep, accumulation of amyloid-beta, and impairment of hippocampal-dependent of memory The decline of deep, slow wave sleep begins much earlier in life than most people would expect, with losses occurring as early as the late 20s.”

“Sixty-four possible codons code for only 20 amino acids and a single stop signal. Consequently, some amino acids can be made from multiple codons. For example, serine and leucine correspond to six different codons each, making them particularly interesting for genetic manipulation.”